Systems Architect

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Job Description:

Ensure feasibility of the of the system's design according to the quality/cost/schedule objectives of the core techno project.

Ensure standardization and maximize the reuse of functions and components/parts for optimize the time to market and the development cost.

Oversee and coordinate activities of the multiple referents from dedicated disciplines (analyst engineers, system designers, components leaders)

Organize and conduct the main system technical reviews (System Requirements Review, Systems Functional Review, Preliminary Design Review, …).

Organize and control the system architecture activities and results through the PLM tools and manage her/his System lifecycle.

Monitor and control the progressive achievement of the desired system product through architectural views and data.

Provide a System level technical status to the project manager.

Technical Skills:

Mastering Functional Architectures

Master of connected services related to the automobile (Authentication, profile, activation, xcall, ....)

Ability to understand high-level functional needs to detach functional groups from a vehicle.

Ability to break down client needs into functional groups

Ability to understand safety requirements in a functional vehicle architecture

Ability to apply editorial rigor in English

Ability to enforce configuration management to all system actors and managers

Ability to explain and impose configuration management on projects

Knowledge of the document structure associated with the design of a complex system based on operational safety and traceability requirements

Knowledge of vehicle functions including complex mechanical functions such as engines, gearboxes, braking systems, ADAS ... etc., would be an advantage.

Knowledge of the modeling of electronic architecture using a system engineering tool would be a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

5 years in functional/system design in multidisciplinary environment

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

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